Improvement in fenders for car-windows



R. P. PROGTU'R.

v FENDERS FORCAR-WIHB-Q3W$ No. 180,635. Pantvezu rxhuuiv Aug. 1, 1876.

ATTORNEYS.

N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGHAPNER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED ST TES PATENTOFFICE.

RAPHAEL P. PROCTOR, OF EDINBURG, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENDERS FOR CAR-WINDOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,635, dated August1, 1876 application filed March 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAPHAEL P. PROCTOR, of Edinburg, in the. county ofShenandoah and State of Virginia, have invented a new and ImprovedFender for Oar-Windows and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

Railway-cars have been provided with fenders consisting of flat orcurved plates for the purpose of preventing dust, sparks, cinders, &c.,from entering the windows while the train is in motion. My improvementin this class of devices is in the form of a hood or funnel, convergingto a tube at its lower extremity, and pivoted to a bracket beneath thecar-window, to adapt it to be turned to either side thereof, and theresecured by a catch, which is likewise pivoted to said bracket, ashereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, Figurel is a side elevation of a fragment of a car, showing my improved deviceas applied in practice. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a car providedwith my device; Fig. 3, a front view of the funnel detached from thecar; Fig. 4, a detail view, showing the manner of pivoting the funneland its catch.

The sheet-metal hood or funnel A is similar in shape to the wind-sail ofa ship, being tapered from its upper to its lower end, which latter isin the form of a tube, a. It is rigidly secured to, and supportedvertically by, an arm, B, which is pivoted horizontally upon the bracket0, projecting laterally from the car body immediately beneath thewindow. The

open side of the funnel is turned outward, or

from the window, whether it be on one side or the other thereof; and inpractice it will always be turned in the direction the train is moving,so as to catch and arrest the dust, cinder-s, &c., which pass closealongside the car, and would otherwise be drawn into the window whenopen. In order to hold the funnel in either position-that is, on eitherside of thewind0wI employa double catch,D, which consists of a metalplate or bar having a lip or flange, c, at each end, adapted to passover the supporting-arm B of the funnel, and thus hold it in the desiredposition. The catch is pivoted to bracket (J, so as to swing vertical-1y thereon, but be incapable of movement in a horizontal plane. Thefunnel and catch are thus made accessible from the car-window, and theformer may be adjusted from one side to the other without difficulty,inconvenience, or delay, whilein either position it offers noobstruction to the admission of light, or the view from the window.

In view of the tapered form of the upper portion of the funnel, and thelower portion a being tubular, a downward draft is caused by the passageof air across the mouth of the tube while the train is in motion, thuscausing the dust and cinders arrested and gathered by the funnel to' becarried downward, and discharged through the tube. The sides of thefunnel are extended laterally at f, forming wings that prevent thepassage of dust,

'&c., between the body of the funnel and the side of the car.

What I claim is 1. The funnel or hood A, pivoted beneath the car-window,and thus adapted to be adjusted on either side of the window, as shownand described.

2. The funnel or hood A, having the tubular lower portion a, as and forthe purpose specified.

3. The combination, with the hood or funnel adapted to swing from sideto side of the window, of the catch or locking device, pivoted asdescribed, so as to swing in a vertical plane, as set forth.

RAPHAEL P. PROOTOR.

Witnesses:

E. B. TAPLEY, JOSEPH OoMER.

